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The incident has roiled Donald Trump’s transition team since the former president announced Hegseth as his pick for defense secretary.

Pete Hegseth was barred from protecting President Biden’s inauguration in 2021 after enlisted soldiers complained that Hegseth’s chest tattoo might signify that he was a white supremacist. The D.C. National Guard’s top legal affairs officer at the time tells The Washington Post it was an “overreaction” in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club is home to his presidential transition, attracting long-shot job seekers and serious contenders for top administration positions.

The Washington Post has spent more than a year examining police officers accused of sexually abusing kids. Here’s how we reported the Abused by the Badge series.

In a tiny West Virginia town, Gauley Bridge Police Chief Larry Clay Jr. “was the law.” Then he was accused of paying to rape a teen and trying to cover it up.

Howard Lutnick, Trump’s transition co-chair, has talked up Tether, which the government is looking into.

Donald Trump has pledged, if reelected, to purge the government of bureaucrats suspected of being insufficiently loyal to him and his agenda.

Under plea agreement, the con man behind the most extensive corruption scandal in U.S. military history could be released from prison in as little as one year.

How the U.S. military lost a $250 million war game in minutes. Secret for 20 years, a declassified report warned of military vulnerabilities to unconventional tactics that were later exploited by enemies in real conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

After the Apalachee High shooting, 14-year-olds worried they’d be next. Sought places to hide. And fixated on one fact: The alleged killer, and both slain students, were their age.

The 1911 Nevada statute is one of a wide variety of laws that have been used in rare cases across the country to prosecute women for trying to end a pregnancy.

President Joe Biden apologized to Native Americans on Friday for the U.S. government’s role in taking Native children from their families and cultures.

Joe Biden’s remarks would mark the first time a U.S. president formally apologized for the government’s role in separating Native children from their families.

A Hawaii man who attended a school where Tim Walz taught was dismayed to see someone using his name to make a false allegation against the vice presidential candidate.

An episode guide: Grenada’s prime minister was executed in a coup in 1983. The location of his remains is unknown. New details reveal the role the U.S. played.

As president, Trump could shape policy on cryptocurrency and social media, two industries in which he has new financial interests.

Interviews with family members and a review of private texts and public documents open a window on a 14-year-old’s path to alleged gunman at Apalachee High School.

The request comes after a Washington Post article revealed how a secret Justice Department investigation was closed despite prosecutors and FBI agents having sought to take additional steps.